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Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Eileen Hull & Stampotique Collaboration…

Hello! This month Eileen Hull's team is collaborating with Stampotique and both teams have been creating some pretty spectacular projects! I encourage you to check out the June posts on Eileen's blog and the Stampotique blog too! For my project, I used Eileen's Mini Album for the structure and all sorts of diecuts and of course fabulously whimsical Kira Nichols stamps from Stampotique to create a tunnel book.

Front, off on a road trip!

Back cover - road stripes are made with washi tape

The adventure begins!

Hmm, is this the end?

Nope!

I used Liquid Glass to adhere the glass glitter "crystals" to the cave walls.

Whew, lots of photos aren't there? ;-) Continue on for a look at how I created this.

Step 1 – I played around with tracing paper to determine the placement of elements and the cut openings in the pages.

Step 2 – I cut three layers of foam core for the cave base and carved out the openings with a craft knife. (Use a sharp blade!)

Step 3 – I stamped all the characters onto a heavy mixed media substrate and painted them with DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylics. Then I fussy cut them out. I also stamped and painted the cover, cut from Sizzix Matboard.

Step 4 – I added DecoArt Media Gesso and Texture Sand Paste to the layers of the cave parts before painting them. I left the top layer loose because I knew I was going to have some of the stamped images sandwiched between them.

Step 5 – I assembled the top pages with their die cuts and stamping. It was handy to have my tracing paper sketches to keep track of which page was which.

Step 6 – Last, I made the spine to hold the top pages and mount to the cave base. (I used a similar binding for this album project.) I cut six strips of cardstock 1 x 4.75 inches. (Turned out that I really only needed five of them.) I folded each in half lengthwise and then glued them together to form a fan shape (bottom photo). One outside flap got glued to the side of the foam core base and I adhered the pages to each of the other flaps.

Well, that was an epic post! You get a medal if you made it through the whole thing lol. Check out the other projects we've made this month and enjoy your week!

Many of the supplies I used
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